Foster Care Secretary

Welcome to Sundsvall Municipality! Sundsvall Municipality is one of the largest employers in Norrland with around 8,000 employees and over 300 professions. Together, we fulfill one of society's most important missions – creating value and benefits for residents, businesses, and future generations. Regardless of our activities, we work toward the same goal: to be a great place to live, work, and thrive in. Right now, we are in an exciting phase of development. We are a driving force in digital development and artificial intelligence, and together we create smart solutions for Sundsvall residents today and in the future. We are facing major transformations to meet citizens' needs in the long term – do you want to be part of that journey? Your new workplace The Placement Unit is a central part of the social services' work with children and young people who, for various reasons, cannot remain with their biological families. Our mission is to ensure that placed children and young people receive safe, quality care and support that meets their basic and special needs. The unit is responsible for implementing, monitoring, and developing foster care placements as well as for recruitment, assessment, and training of foster families, contact families, and contact persons. Within the unit, child secretaries, foster care secretaries, recruiters, and administrators work in close collaboration to create the best conditions for the children and young people we serve. The Placement Unit consists of two work teams, Team South and Team North, each led by a unit manager with support from coordinators who serve as operational team leaders. We are now recruiting a Foster Care Secretary for Team South. With us, you will have a meaningful and stimulating role in foster care work and become part of a stable team with engaged and experienced colleagues. How you contribute in this role As a Foster Care Secretary, you work with developing, planning, and implementing support for foster families through individualized and group-oriented support initiatives, supervision, and training. You work independently in foster family contacts and in a team with the child secretary on cases. You plan and develop the unit's activities together with others. Most importantly, this role involves providing individualized, consistent, and qualified support to foster families through personal contact. The working time model is 6+2, which means 6 hours of on-site work per day. The remaining 2 hours are allocated for reflection, professional development, and wellness activities. We offer external supervision. The position may involve some travel, and flexible working hours may occur. Your competence and experience For this position, you must have a degree in social work or education in accordance with the National Board of Health and Welfare's regulations for work with children (SOSFS 2014:7) Strong ability to express yourself well in both speech and writing in Swedish Basic knowledge of Word Drive permit category B We consider the following as merits: Previous experience as a Foster Care Secretary Relevant advanced education at university level ICDP, Connect, Komet, MI, BBIC Experience in family treatment work Knowledge of applicable legislation in the field Knowledge of children's needs and development Previous experience with public authority work Strong ability to express yourself well in both speech and writing in English Experience with the Treserva or Lifecare management system We are looking for someone interested in working based on evidence and who has the ability to apply and share your knowledge. As a person, you are independent, flexible, have good communication skills, and excellent collaboration abilities. We also want you to be stable, have self-awareness, and feel confident in yourself. You can distinguish between the personal and professional. You have empathetic abilities and find it easy to collaborate. We place great emphasis on personal suitability! About the recruitment process As part of this process, the final candidate will undergo a drug test and provide an extract from the criminal record registry. Good to know Salary: Monthly salary/hourly rate. Individual and differentiated salary setting is applied. Terms: Salary compensation beyond the base salary follows applicable collective agreements. Central collective agreements are available on the website of Swedish Municipalities and Regions, www.skr.se Collective agreement: HÖK-OFR-AKV (SSR and Vision) Benefits: For more information about benefits and terms within Sundsvall Municipality: https://sundsvall.se/kommun/jobb-och-foretagande/jobb-praktik-och-ideellt-arbete/kommunen-som-arbetsgivare/formaner?ae=förmåner Are you interested in reading more about Sundsvall? Visit www.sundsvall.se, or if you're interested in what it would be like to live and work in Sundsvall, you can read more at www.nykommun.se/kommun/sundsvall/ We work toward a drug-free work environment and drug testing may occur upon hiring of personnel. We apply smoke-free working hours. At Sundsvall Municipality, we value diversity and welcome employees with different backgrounds. We appreciate the value that equal gender distribution and diversity bring to our operations and work to make our workplaces accessible to all. To quality-assure the recruitment process and enable good communication with our applicants, we ask that you apply for the position through the link in this announcement. If you are also interested in working as firefighter/part-time firefighter personnel on standby, click on the link: https://www.rtjmedelpad.se/om-oss/jobba-hos-oss/raddningstjanstpersonal-i-beredskap-rib We decline all offers of advertising and recruitment assistance in connection with this announcement.

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